My name is Anthony Padilla, and today I'll be spending a day with Susan Wojiski, the CEO of YouTube, who began as one of Google's first employees.

This is understandably a controversial subject for me to broach, but I'm going to do my best to address the issues that I, along with so many of you have,

while also getting to know Susan better as a person.

By the end of this video, we'll find out what becoming CEO and running this 170 billion dollar company

is really like, just how deep she gets into the drama and gossip that occurs on the platform

and YouTube's role in deep platforming its creators.

Is holding the highest ranking position

at one of the most culturally impactful platforms

on the internet entirely rewarding?

Or has the sheer amount of attacks and rage

that Susan's endured as CEO made her want to avoid looking at the internet altogether.

Hello Susan.

Hello.

Do you remember the first time you heard about YouTube and what you thought of it?

So I first heard about YouTube from the very very beginning. I worked on a

product that Google had before YouTube, which was called Google Video. For a variety of

reasons, YouTube started growing in a very compelling way and at the time we lived in this world where it was only

traditional media and no one had really thought about could a normal person just upload and become a star

and I realized there was a whole new wave of storytelling

and that's why I was so such a strong advocate

for Google to really invest here.

That's so interesting that you were on that side of it seeing that potential while I was on the content creator side seeing the potential of it their little slogan was broadcast yourself and I was like whoa I can upload content and I remember uploading our first video was Smosh and then

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